Degree(s) | Year Awarded:
Ph.D., State University of Buffalo, 2000
M.S., Pondicherry University, 1995
B.S.c, St. Joseph College, 1993
Course(s) Taught: Ecology
Selected Publication(s):
Zhong D., A. Pai and G.Yan. 2005. Costly resistance to parasitism: evidence from simultaneous quantitative trait loci mapping for resistance and fitness. "Genetics" 169: 2127-2135.
Pai, A., L. Bennett and G. Yan. 2005. Female multiple mating for fertility assurance in red flour beetles?"Canadian Journal of Zoology." 83: 913-919.
Current Grant Support:
RIMI Program, Spelman College
Research Interests:
My interests are in the general area of evolutionary biology and ecology and specifically in the area of behavioral ecology and host-parasite evolution.
Recent studies have shown a variety of ways in which a ‘battle of the sexes’ plays out between males and females of different species, and how each sex tries to manipulate the other to protect their own reproductive interests. My research uses the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) to study female multiple mating behavior and the conflict of interests between the sexes. The results of this research will yield insights into the evolution of reproductive biology and perhaps even speciation.
